Recreation Department Offering Tennis Lessons

January 2, 1986|By P.J. Lacette

Tennis enthusiasts -- or would-be enthusiasts -- can get in shape for the new year with lessons offered by the recreation department. Levels of training for beginners through advanced players start Monday at Eastmonte, South Longwood Avenue, and Jan. 13 at Westmonte, 500 Spring Oaks Blvd.

Registration is $10 for city residents, plus the annual fee that ranges from $10 to $25. Non-residents pay $20 plus the membership fees.

-- An eight-week soccer program for boys and girls in kindergarten through fifth grade starts Monday. The Seminole YMCA program will emphasize fundamentals, fair play and fun.

Players will meet at Teague and Rock Lake middle schools, and at Idyllwilde and Winter Springs elementary schools.

Beginners play 4 to 5 p.m., and advanced beginners from 5 to 6 p.m. weekdays.

A YMCA shirt is included in the $22 fee for Y members and $27 for others.

-- Decorative tole, folk and fabric painting classes start Monday at Crafts Plus, 1032 Montgomery Road. A series of four sessions at $24 is scheduled 10 a.m. to noon Mondays or Tuesdays; or 6 to 8 p.m. Mondays or Wednesdays.

Four classes in flower design for beginners run 1 to 3 p.m. or 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays. Lessons for intermediates are offered 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Sundays, and advanced flower design classes are 6 to 8 p.m. Fridays. Each set of four classes is $15.

Calligraphy is offered at 6 p.m. Mondays, for $24 for four classes.

Cake decorating for beginners is available 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. or 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays, and advanced cake decorators can add more polish to their confectionary creations with the help of classes 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays. Five classes are $15.

-- A CPR for Citizens Heartsaver course starts at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 14 at Florida Hospital Altamonte, 601 E. Altamonte Road, off of State Road 436. Included is one-rescuer cardiopulmonary resuscitation, how to help a choking victim and medical emergency procedures. There also will be a CPR for Citizens basic rescuer class at 7 p.m. Jan. 15 at the fire department on Douglas Avenue. That course covers two-man and infant CPR, and how to clear a blocked passage. Heartsaver certification is required to sign up for that class. Advance registration is required. Call CPR for Citizens to sign up for either $5 course.

-- The Elks may be coming to Altamonte Springs and Longwood. Edgar Keller, a district officer in the Elks, will discuss the possibility of setting up a Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks at a Jan. 8 meeting at Quincy's Family Steak House, 1191 Douglas Ave. Contact Keller, 325 N. Edwin Ave, Apopka, for more details.

-- Altamonte Springs Lions Club board members will meet at 6:15 p.m. Jan. 13 at Duff's Restaurant on State Road 436. A regular club meeting will be afterward at 7 p.m. Joe Gilarde will present a program on the Lions international relations program.

-- Michael Daigle has been promoted to the rank of first lieutenant in the U.S. Army. The son of Eugene and Jeri Daigle, 490 Abba St., Altamonte Springs, is a military police investigations division officer with the 463rd Military Police Company at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. He graduated from the University of Central Florida in 1984.